/siberia/ - Off-topic

>>728044
lets look at someone like richard dawkin. in the 2000s he was sayin he was a atheist and christianity and religion in general was poison. now he is calling himself a cultural christian. that christianity its values, rituals, and culture like church bells are important for identity.
many of these people are adopting this christian identity to oppose something: 'globalism', 'woke', 'the muslim conspiracy'.
but i also think that this isn't organic and has been manufactured.

>>728044
To me it seems like all the leftist elements have left the church already. In USA this could be different as so many believe in God there.

>>728044
Unironically, evolution.
It used to be somewhat reasonable to be religious as an intelligent knowledgeable person, because there was a lot about the world we did not understand. There was a huge "gap" for God to exist in. Science could be seen as an extension of God's creation.
When evolution was discovered, rigorously tested, and finally established as a foundation of biology, the world could finally be explained as a series of natural/physical phenomena. Life was not the result of a divine inventor, but rather a complex systemic process that happened over billions of years. God and the supernatural became wholly unnecessary.
So then we saw a shift in the scientific community and intelligentsia from religion to atheism. Thus the ones who remained religious began to reject science, academia, and knowledge itself. Capitalists further exploited this and transformed Christians into a voting bloc that could be manipulated into supporting the interests of capital.

death of god. less and less self-proclaimed christians are in out of 100% pure belief, leaving a greater proportion of them in it for self-interest, as a tool for conservative politics, and so on.

>>728088
>In USA this could be different as so many believe in God there.
I wanna contradict you, but half the lefties (to use a vague umbrella term) I know are christian. It's fuckin weird, but I do think in general the bible seems to line up with general collectivist views than individualism which makes evangelical fascism basically reverse christianity

>>728044
>huff gasoline
>fuck their cousins
Literally nothing wrong with either of these things. Moralism is cringe as hell and Marxists should have nothing to do with it.

>>728146
On top of that, most reasonable Christians/religious folk renegotiated the passages of scripture that contradict evolution; the problem is that liberal and literary interpretations of scripture have a more individual effect rather than a societal effect.

>>731356
Liberal Christianity is self-selecting, it's doomed to die out because it doesn't lead to new converts. They aren't indoctrinating their kids so with each generation they become less religious and then finally non-religious.
Whereas religious fundamentalism perpetuates itself through rigorous childhood indoctrination and societal pressure. Obviously some kids will still reject it but a lot of them won't.

>>728044
Because 99.99% of people are right wing that enjoy living in a right wing hellscape and so they recycled the religion to suit their own viewpoint